HOUSE hunters value a garden above all things when searching for a new property, a survey suggests today.

How wrong our priorities are. The most prized asset of any home must be good neighbours.

Those who had to live next door to John Tanner know that more than most. His threatening and noisy behaviour made their home life hell.

Today they are celebrating his eviction. New laws to deal with nuisance neighbours, prosecuted with vigour by City of York Council, are transforming neighbourhoods for the better.

Updated: 10:44 Wednesday, July 17, 2002